meaning of bang
1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
2. To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.
3. To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.
4. A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
5. The sound produced by a sudden concussion.
6. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
7. The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
8. Alt. of Bangue
9. bang 1. A common spoken name for "!" ASCII 33, especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken hackish. In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek; but the spread of Unix has carried "bang" with it especially via the term bang path and it is now certainly the most common spoken name for "!". Note that it is used exclusively for non-emphatic written "!"; one would not say "Congratulations bang" except possibly for humorous purposes, but if one wanted to specify the exact characters "foo!" one would speak "Eff oh oh bang". See pling, shriek, ASCII. 2. An exclamation signifying roughly "I have achieved enlightenment!", or "The dynamite has cleared out my brain!" Often used to acknowledge that one has perpetrated a thinko immediately after one has been called on it. [Jargon File]
Related Words
bang | bang on | banged | banging | bangle | bangue |
